By Grace Hassler and Grant Jensen Est. Read Time: 8 minutes Let’s be clear: wherever possible, Homegrown National Park™ encourages everyone to shrink the lawn and plant the most productive plants (keystone flowering plants or keystone trees and shrubs). We also understand that in order for everyone to participate in the native planting movement, their yards […]
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Early spring bloomers to support pollinators! Try adding some of these plants that are native to your area. Native spring ephemerals are a group of plants that emerge in early spring in many temperate areas. These plants are adapted to quickly complete their growth cycle during the short period between winter’s end and the time
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The AskScience subreddit hosted a special native plants session with key members of the HNP team. Over 130 questions were answered, and below are some of the top-voted answers. Dig deeper and view the post with all questions here. Q: RIPEOTCDXVII’m from a prairie state, and there’s a lot of back-and-forth in restoration circles on
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Finding the Right Native Plants It’s easy to be overwhelmed at the nursery shopping for new plants, especially when you want to create a wildlife habitat. And plant tags seldom provide enough or even the right information to make informed decisions suitable for our specific site conditions. For example, a plant tag will discuss light
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Plant selection is more than just gardening; it’s restoration. Over the course of a few centuries, we have changed the topography and soil chemistry of every corner of this country through agriculture, industry, and urban development. We have altered the places where native species were once able to establish themselves successfully, and our local ecosystems have suffered as a result.
3 Steps for Choosing Native Plants for Your Yard / by Wildlawn Read More »
Coneflower, Milkweed, and Beebalm make up almost 30% of the native plant market. You can find them in almost any garden center on the east coast, and we’re sold and told to plant them every year. But if these native plants are so important, durable, and easy to grow, why don’t we see them in the wild? In truth, these types of plants used to dominate the landscape, but after decades and centuries of altered topography and over development, their habitats have all but disappeared. In the sink-or-swim world of natural selection, native plants have fallen into two camps: specialized and generalized communities.
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